To put this disaster somewhat back on track.....

If you want the devs to fix an exploit, exploit it! A lot. It is a BETA and everything should be tested thoroughly including high end fittings and gear. The more people with high end skills that can attain the high end gear and test it, the better. It may take boosting to attain those levels and that's fine with me. How will you know what gear/weapons need to be fixed if nobody is able to get them, use them, and abuse them?? That's my opinion. When it comes time for release, that's a totally different story and i hope it's all been remedied at that point.

On a side note,myself and a couple of our guys joined a battle and we decided to test boosting. During the process we attained 5 orbital strikes ourselves in a shockingly short amount of time. Suddenly i noticed an extraordinary amount of orbital strikes being placed one after the other on the battlefield targeting the rest of my team that was actually playing. I realized there must be other people boosting in the match on the other team. We scoped the area and noticed a suspicious cluster of orange players with a couple of LAVs. We intentionally dumped 4 of our orbitals out in no man's land, so as not to be totally abusing our boost testing to other players' detriment. I don't want to cost someone their expensive proto fits if i'm not really playing the match. That's not cool.

The last orbital? We dropped it directly on the suspicious cluster of orange just for laughs and sure enough, every single kill was a member of a well known boosting clan.

Again, not blaming them for doing it. Drawing attention to boosting is a good thing and they're obviously doing it enough and in a way to draw disdain from the community. To actually use the orbitals attained while boosting to target the enemy is a grey area for me. That's just my own opinion though and why we dumped ours out in the open desert. It's totally up to them to use them how they wish. I don't condemn them for boosting, though there is a difference between exploit testing and exploit abuse. Regardless, both help get things fixed so i'm fine with it either way.

To those that send hate mail to people that are boosting, exploring the maps, flying dropships or driving LAVs out in no man's land, or pretty much any other thing that is seen as not helping the team :

Grow up. Test something. Find bugs and exploits. Find things that are OP or need balancing. Don't just play the game and blame someone else for putting in the work to find those things. If you want a better, balanced, fair game at release... BREAK IT NOW. If you just want to play the game now, better stock up on tissues because a month after release you are going to have many things to cry about because they made it through BETA without enough testing.


Boost on warriors.


( I probably won't return to this thread because I fully expect ignorant, flame-y responses so knock yourselves out! I assume it'll be locked soon due to the childish nonsense going on, so hopefully this post that actually makes sense will be the last in before the lock )

lol, damn man. CCP needs to give you a bonus. Completely agree and if we're ever in a match, I'll either be standing beside you or gunning for your arse.

Don't stop posting. You are one of the few whom I actively seek out to find your insight. I'm encountering the angry few all over the place calling me a whiner and attacking my gunplay as the culprit. Let's do our job and let the rest deal with their own conscience.